Protect the remote workers
November 23, 2021
Protect the remote workers
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Umbrella
With most of our employees being remote workers, Cisco Umbrella was crucial in securing our company laptops. When a large percentage of your staff work outside the office and you have no control over the perimeter devices that are monitoring internet traffic, Cisco Umbrella provides ease of mind for those responsible for maintaining the security of the devices and the company's intellectual property. The Administration UI is very easy to use and, at the same time, offers excellent granularity of control over each device. One additional bonus if you are a Meraki user, you can tie your Cisco Umbrella policies to Meraki access points and firewalls.
- Secure traffic to only approved sites.
- Reporting on user traffic.
- Allow for fine grain control of policies and permissions.
- Troubleshooting blocks, legitimate traffic is sometimes blocked, and that is to be expected. Some tools to help administrators find and approve those blocks would be great.
- Ability to mass approve or deny applications in the App Discovery and control center.
Do you think Cisco Umbrella delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco Umbrella's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Umbrella live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Umbrella go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Umbrella again?
Yes
- Insight into applications used by remote workers, reduce shadow IT vulnerabilities.
- Less downtime due to malware.
- Less risk of being scammed.
- Negative, troubleshooting blocks can be a time drain on IT resources.
Very well, and it is the reason I would suggest anyone with remote workers to make the investment in protecting your company's assets and IP from malicious sites or applications. I was able to deploy it to the end-user laptops with minimal effort, and it worked right out of the box.
Yes, we used Meraki MX devices on the perimeter, and Meraki Access points to provide wireless internet in the offices. It was very easy to integrate Cisco Umbrella into those devices, so any endpoints that did not have the roaming client installed were also protected. You can set up different policies to use on the Meraki devices, which provide for more control over what traffic is allowed or blocked.
I have not used any other DNS protection product. I don't know if any exist [with] the robust feature set that Cisco Umbrella offers.